The Yellow Wall-Paper
| First published | January 1892 |
|---|---|
| Type | Short Fiction |
| Length | Short Story |
A woman takes up residence in a house where the wallpaper in the bedroom gradually convinces her that a spirit is trapped on the other side of it, which she is driven to release.
- First published in New England Magazine, January 1892.
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
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| January 1892 | The New England Magazine, January 1892 | New England Magazine Corporation | MAGAZINE | 647 | |
| 1901 | The Yellow Wall Paper | Small, Maynard & Co. | Chapbook | ||
| 1901 |
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The Yellow Wall Paper | Small, Maynard & Co. | Chapbook | |
| 1927 | American Mystery Stories | Oxford University Press, USA | Anthology | 177 | |
| 1937 |
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The Haunted Omnibus | Farrar & Rinehart | Anthology | 55 |
| 1937 | The Haunted Omnibus | Oxford | Anthology | 55 | |
| 1937 |
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The Haunted Omnibus | Cassell | Anthology | 55 |
| 1939 | Great Ghost Stories of the World: The Haunted Omnibus | Garden City Publishing Co. | Anthology | 55 | |
| 1941 |
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Great Ghost Stories of the World | Blue Ribbon Books | Anthology | 55 |
| 1941 |
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Great Ghost Stories of the World | Blue Ribbon Books | Anthology | 55 |
| March 1942 |
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The Midnight Reader | Henry Holt & Co. | Anthology | 312 |
| October 1947 |
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The Pocket Book of Ghost Stories | Pocket Books | Anthology | 342 |
| 1950 |
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Ghostly Tales to Be Told | Dodd, Mead & Co. | Anthology | 237 |
| 1953 |
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The London Mystery Magazine, #17 | Norman Kark Publications | MAGAZINE | 17 |
| 1960 |
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The Midnight Reader (abridged) | World / WDL Books | Anthology | 211 |
| November 1960 | Help!, #4 November 1960 | General Promotions Co. | MAGAZINE | |2 | |
| 1961 |
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More Macabre | Ace Books | Anthology | 65 |
| 1962 |
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Great Ghost Stories | Washington Square Press | Anthology | 272 |
| July 1962 |
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Great Ghost Stories | Washington Square Press | Anthology | 272 |
| 1965 |
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A Chamber of Horrors | Little, Brown | Anthology | 163 |
| August 1965 |
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Owls' Watch | Fawcett Crest | Anthology | 48 |
| October 1965 |
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A Chamber of Horrors | Studio Vista | Anthology | 163 |
| 1967 |
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A Chamber of Horrors | Fontana | Anthology | |
| 1967 |
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A Chamber of Horrors | Fontana | Anthology | |
| February 1967 |
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These Will Chill You | Bantam Books | Anthology | 6 |
| March 1967 |
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Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March 1967 | Davis Publications | MAGAZINE | 38|1 |
| December 1970 | A Chamber of Horrors | Fontana | Anthology | 151 | |
| 1971 |
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Ladies of Horror: Two Centuries of Supernatural Stories by the Gentle Sex | Lothrop, Lee & Shepard | Anthology | 137 |
| October 1972 |
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Eight Strange Tales | Fawcett Gold Medal | Anthology | 107 |
| 1973 |
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L'Amérique fantastique de Poe à Lovecraft | Marabout | Anthology | 299 |
| 1973 |
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Underlige fortellinger | Fredhøis Forlag A/S | Anthology | 110 |
| August 1974 |
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Ghosts, Castles, and Victims: Studies in Gothic Terror | Fawcett Crest | Anthology | 482 |
| 1975 |
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Open at Your Own Risk | Houghton Mifflin | Anthology | 1 |
| April 1975 |
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The Ninth Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories | Fontana | Anthology | 82 |
| 1976 | Open at Your Own Risk | Hamish Hamilton | Anthology | 1 | |
| 1976 |
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Open at Your Own Risk | Book Club Associates | Anthology | 1 |
| April 1976 |
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Ms. Mysteries: 19 Tales of Suspense Written by Women and Featuring Female Heroines | Washington Square Press / Pocket Books | Anthology | 100 |
| October 1976 |
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Classic Tales of Horror | Constable & Co. Ltd. | Anthology | 207 |
| 1977 |
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Tales of Mystery and Suspense | Allyn & Bacon | Anthology | 35 |
| February 1978 |
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Great Tales of the Supernatural | J. M. Dent & E. P. Dutton | Anthology | 144 |
| June 1979 |
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Wolf's Complete Book of Terror | Clarkson N. Potter | Anthology | 270 |
| June 1979 |
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Wolf's Complete Book of Terror | Clarkson N. Potter | Anthology | 270 |
| 1980 |
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The Ninth Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories | Fontana | Anthology | |
| 1980 |
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Midnight Fright | Watermill Press | Anthology | 46 |
| 1980 | The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader: "The Yellow Wallpaper" and Other Fiction | Pantheon Books | Collection | 3 | |
| 1981 |
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Twenty-Two Tales | The Franklin Library | Anthology | 225 |
| July 1981 | The Ninth Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories | Fontana | Anthology | 82 | |
| November 1981 |
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Histoires de délires | Presses Pocket | Anthology | 197 |
| 1982 |
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65 Great Spine Chillers | Octopus Books | Anthology | 273 |
| 1982 |
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65 Great Spine Chillers | Octopus Books / Marks and Spencer | Anthology | 273 |
| 1983 | Tales of Mystery and Suspense | Allyn & Bacon | Anthology | 35 | |
| 1983 |
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65 Great Spine Chillers | Octopus Books | Anthology | 273 |
| October 1984 |
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Witches' Brew: Horror and Supernatural Stories by Women | Macmillan | Anthology | 37 |
| 1985 |
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65 Great Spine Chillers | Octopus Books | Anthology | 273 |
| October 1985 |
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Haunted Women: The Best Supernatural Tales by American Women Writers | Ungar | Anthology | 92 |
| June 1987 |
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Haunted Women: The Best Supernatural Tales by American Women Writers | Ungar | Anthology | 92 |
| July 1987 |
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Tales of the Dark | St. Martin's Press | Anthology | 113 |
| September 1987 |
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House Shudders | DAW Books | Anthology | 41 |
| October 1987 |
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The Dark Descent | Tor | Anthology | 460 |
| 1988 |
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Der Eingang ins Paradies und andere phantastische Erzählungen | Suhrkamp | Anthology | 146 |
| 1988 |
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Fiction 100: An Anthology of Short Stories | Macmillan | Anthology | 512 |
| February 1988 |
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Histoires de délires | Presses Pocket | Anthology | 197 |
| August 1988 |
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The Dark Descent | Tor / BOMC | Anthology | 460 |
| August 1988 |
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L'Amérique fantastique de Poe à Lovecraft | Néo | Anthology | 301 |
| October 1988 |
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Haunting Women | Avon | Anthology | 56 |
| 1989 |
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Fictions: Second Edition | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | Anthology | 443 |
| September 1989 |
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Triumph of the Night: Tales of Terror and the Supernatural by 20th Century Masters | Carroll & Graf | Anthology | 31 |
| November 1989 |
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The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings | Bantam Books | Collection | 1 |
| 1990 | The Yellow Wallpaper | Orchises | Chapbook | ||
| 1990 |
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Black Water 2: More Tales of the Fantastic | Lester & Orpen Dennys | Anthology | 762 |
| November 1990 |
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The Medusa in the Shield | Grafton | Anthology | 192 |
| November 1990 |
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The Medusa in the Shield | Grafton | Anthology | 192 |
| November 1990 |
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The Omnibus of 20th-Century Ghost Stories | Robinson | Anthology | |
| 1991 |
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The Medusa in the Shield | Grafton | Anthology | 316 |
| January 1991 |
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Black Water 2: More Tales of the Fantastic | Clarkson N. Potter | Anthology | 762 |
| April 1991 |
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White Fire: Further Fantastic Literature | Picador | Anthology | 762 |
| November 1991 |
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The Medusa in the Shield | Tor | Anthology | 259 |
| November 1991 |
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The Omnibus of 20th Century Ghost Stories | Carroll & Graf | Anthology | 31 |
| March 1992 |
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The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales | Oxford University Press | Anthology | 149 |
| March 1992 |
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The Omnibus of 20th Century Ghost Stories | Robinson | Anthology | |
| May 1992 |
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Great Tales of the Supernatural | J. M. Dent | Anthology | 144 |
| June 1992 |
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Black Water 2: More Tales of the Fantastic | Vintage Canada | Anthology | 762 |
| July 1992 |
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Herland and Selected Stories | Signet Classic / New American Library | Collection | 165 |
| 1993 |
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Das vierte Buch des Horrors | Heyne | Anthology | 97 |
| July 1993 |
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The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales | Oxford University Press | Anthology | |
| August 1993 |
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Horror by Lamplight | Chancellor Press | Anthology | 341 |
| August 1993 |
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The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales | Oxford University Press | Anthology | 149 |
| 1994 |
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Midnight Fright: A Collection of Ghost Stories | Watermill Press | Anthology | 46 |
| November 1994 |
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Wolf's Complete Book of Terror | Newmarket Press | Anthology | 234 |
| 1996 |
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The Yellow Wallpaper | The Feminist Press | Chapbook | 9 |
| February 1996 |
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Great Short Stories by American Women | Dover Publications | Collection | 73 |
| February 1996 |
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La grande anthologie du fantastique : 1 | Omnibus (France) | Omnibus | 159 |
| October 1996 | The Omnibus of 20th Century Ghost Stories | Robinson | Anthology | ||
| December 1996 |
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American Gothic Tales | Plume / Penguin | Anthology | 87 |
| 1997 | American Gothic Tales | Plume / Penguin / BCE | Anthology | 87 | |
| February 1997 |
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The Dark Descent | Tor | Anthology | 460 |
| August 1997 |
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Haunted Houses: The Greatest Stories | MJF Books | Anthology | 67 |
| September 1997 | American Gothic | Barnes & Noble Books | Anthology | 319 | |
| September 1999 |
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Herland, The Yellow Wall-Paper, and Selected Writings | Penguin Books (US) | Collection | 166 |
| November 1999 | The Yellow Wallpaper | Project Gutenberg | Chapbook | ||
| September 2000 |
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Dark: Stories of Madness, Murder and the Supernatural | Thunder's Mouth Press and Balliett & Fitzgerald Inc. | Anthology | 207 |
| 2001 |
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The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales | Oxford University Press | Anthology | |
| February 2001 |
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The Treasury of the Fantastic: Romanticism to Early Twentieth Century Literature | North Atlantic Books/Tachyon Publications/Frog, Ltd. | Anthology | 354 |
| October 2001 |
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Dark: Stories of Madness, Murder and the Supernatural | Mainstream Publishing | Anthology | 181 |
| 2002 |
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The Yellow Wallpaper | Virago | Chapbook | 9 |
| 2002 | Gothic Short Stories | Wordsworth Editions | Anthology | ||
| July 2002 |
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Great American Short Stories | Dover Publications | Anthology | 115 |
| September 2002 |
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The 13 Best Horror Stories of All Time | Warner Books | Anthology | 42 |
| September 2002 |
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The American Fantasy Tradition | Tor | Anthology | 407 |
| September 2003 |
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The Best Ghost Stories Ever | Scholastic Paperbacks | Anthology | 108 |
| September 2003 |
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The American Fantasy Tradition | Tor | Anthology | 407 |
| October 2003 | Ideomancer, October 2003 | Decadent Moon | MAGAZINE | |5 | |
| November 2003 | Ideomancer, November 2003 | Decadent Moon | MAGAZINE | |6 | |
| September 2004 |
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The Best Ghost Stories Ever | Scholastic Paperbacks | Anthology | 108 |
| August 2006 |
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H. P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural: 20 Classics of the Macabre, Chosen by the Master of Horror Himself | Pegasus Books | Anthology | |
| September 2006 |
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H. P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural: 20 Classics of the Macabre, Chosen by the Master of Horror Himself | Pegasus Books | Anthology | 305 |
| October 2006 |
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A Grown-up's Halloween: Fantasies and Fables for the Philosophically Fiendish | Blackstone Audiobooks | Anthology | |5 |
| March 2007 |
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Ghost Story Collection 3 | LibriVox | Anthology | |10 |
| June 2007 |
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H. P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural: 19 Classics of the Macabre, Chosen by the Master of Horror Himself | Fall River Press | Anthology | 173 |
| August 2007 |
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Chefs-d'Ĺ“uvre du fantastique: de E.T.A. Hoffmann Ă Stephen King | Omnibus (France) | Anthology | |33 |
| October 2007 |
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Gothic Short Stories | Wordsworth Editions | Anthology | 141 |
| October 2007 |
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American Short Stories | Pearson Longman | Anthology | 186 |
| June 2008 |
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Ghost Story Collection 5 | LibriVox | Anthology | |10 |
| 2009 |
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American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps | The Library of America | Anthology | 131 |
| 2009 |
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The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales | Oxford University Press | Anthology | 249 |
| September 2009 |
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The Yellow Wall-Paper, Herland, and Selected Writings | Penguin Books (US) | Collection | 166 |
| 2010 |
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Backpack Literature | Longman | Anthology | 265 |
| October 2010 |
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Dark Moon Digest, October 2010 | Dark Moon Books | MAGAZINE | 92 |
| 2011 |
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The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction | Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press | Anthology | 340 |
| January 2011 |
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The Vintage Book of American Women Writers | Vintage Books | Anthology | 446 |
| January 2011 |
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The Vintage Book of American Women Writers | Vintage Books | Anthology | |6 |
| January 2011 |
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The Yellow Wallpaper | Wilder Publications | Chapbook | |
| June 2011 |
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Great Short Stories by Great American Writers | Coyote Canyon Press | Collection | 259 |
| October 2011 |
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The Yellow Wallpaper and What Diantha Did | Brownstone Books | Collection | |
| October 2011 |
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The Yellow Wallpaper and What Diantha Did | Brownstone Books | Collection | |
| October 2011 |
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Ghostly Terror! | BBC Audiobooks | Anthology | |
| August 2012 |
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The Oxford Book of American Short Stories | Oxford University Press | Anthology | 191 |
| August 2012 |
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The Yellow Wallpaper | Spellman Press | Chapbook | |
| August 2012 |
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Ancient Terrors | Yurei Press | Anthology | 175 |
| 2013 |
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World's 25 Most Popular Ghost Stories (of the 19th Century) | Sam Teddy Publishing | Anthology | |10 |
| January 2013 |
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The Yellow Wallpaper | Simon & Brown | Chapbook | |
| April 2013 |
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The Yellow Wallpaper | Spellman Press | Chapbook | |
| June 2013 |
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The Yellow Wallpaper | Denton & White | Chapbook | |
| July 2013 |
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The Yellow Wallpaper | HarperPerennial Classics | Chapbook | |
| August 2013 |
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The Treasury of the Fantastic: Romanticism to Early Twentieth Century Literature | Tachyon Publications | Anthology | 359 |
| September 2013 |
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The Yellow Wallpaper | Simon & Brown | Chapbook | |
| September 2013 |
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The Yellow Wallpaper | Heraklion Press | Chapbook | |
| October 2013 | Tales to Terrify, No 94 | District of Wonders | MAGAZINE | ||
| 2014 |
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Psychology: A Literary Introduction | Sam Teddy Publishing | Anthology | |28 |
| September 2014 |
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Herland and Selected Stories | Signet / New American Library | Collection | |
| September 2014 |
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Herland and Selected Stories | Signet / New American Library | Collection | |
| October 2014 |
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Horror Stories: Classic Tales from Hoffmann to Hodgson | Oxford University Press | Anthology | 226 |
| December 2014 |
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LampLight, December 2014 | Apokrupha | MAGAZINE | |8 |
| December 2014 |
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LampLight, December 2014 | Apokrupha | MAGAZINE | |8 |
| January 2015 |
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The Gothic Terror Megapack | Wildside Press | Anthology | |
| February 2015 |
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The Yellow Wall-Paper | Penguin Books | Collection | 1 |
| February 2015 |
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The Yellow Wall-Paper | Penguin Books | Collection | |
| February 2016 |
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Lamplight, Volume 3 | Apokrupha | Anthology | 335 |
| May 2016 |
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The Cold Embrace: Weird Stories by Women | Dover Publications | Anthology | 129 |
| November 2016 |
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Best Horror Short Stories 1850-1899: A 6a66le Horror Anthology | Bottletree Books | Anthology | |4 |
| 2017 |
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Grotesque Quarterly, Volume 1, Issue 1 | Grotesque Publications | MAGAZINE | 11 |
| May 2017 |
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The Yellow Wallpaper | Dancing Unicorn Books | Chapbook | |
| June 2017 |
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HorrorBabble's Classic Horror: Volume 1 | HorrorBabble | Anthology | |4 |
| June 2017 |
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HorrorBabble's Classic Horror: Volume 1 | HorrorBabble | Anthology | |4 |
| April 2018 |
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Supernatural Short Stories | Arcturus Publishing | Anthology | |2 |
| June 2018 |
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Supernatural Short Stories | Sirius / Arcturus Publishing | Anthology | |2 |
| February 2019 |
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More Deadly Than the Male: Masterpieces from the Queens of Horror | Pegasus Books | Anthology | 369 |
| February 2019 |
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More Deadly Than the Male: Masterpieces from the Queens of Horror | Pegasus Books | Anthology | |
| July 2019 |
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American Gothic Short Stories | Flame Tree Publishing | Anthology | |
| August 2019 |
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Inhabited: Classic Haunted House Stories | Warbler Classics | Anthology | 102 |
| August 2019 |
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Inhabited: Classic Haunted House Stories | Warbler Classics | Anthology | |102 |
| September 2019 |
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A Quaint and Curious Volume: Tales & Poems of the Gothic | Collins | Anthology | |12 |
| September 2019 |
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A Quaint and Curious Volume: Tales & Poems of the Gothic | Collins | Anthology | |12 |
| 2020 |
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There Is a Graveyard That Dwells in Man | Strange Attractor Press | Anthology | 359 |
| 2020 |
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John Landis Presents Haunted Houses: Classic Stories of Doors That Should Never Be Opened | DK Publishing | Anthology | |
| March 2020 |
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Tales of Terror | In Audio | Anthology | |
| July 2020 |
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John Landis Presents Haunted Houses: Classic Stories of Doors That Should Never Be Opened | DK Publishing | Anthology | 329 |
| January 2021 |
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The Yellow Wallpaper | Pi Editions | Chapbook | |2 |
| March 2021 |
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La carta da parati gialla e altri racconti | Caravaggio Editore | Collection | |2 |
| May 2021 |
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La carta da parati gialla e altri racconti | Caravaggio Editore | Collection | |2 |
| June 2021 |
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The Yellow Wallpaper & Herland | Macmillan UK | Collection | |7 |
| September 2021 |
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25 Unmissable Horror Stories | HorrorBabble | Anthology | |25 |
| October 2021 | Kaidankai: Ghost and Supernatural Stories, Day 72 | White Enso | MAGAZINE | |1 | |
| January 2022 |
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The Yellow Wallpaper & Herland | Collins | Collection | |1 |
| November 2023 |
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Roads of Destiny and Other Tales of Alternate Histories and Parallel Realms | The British Library | Anthology | 67 |
| December 2023 |
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Il glicine rampicante e altri racconti gotico-femministi | ABEditore | Collection | 35 |
| 2025 |
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The Yellow Wallpaper | Fathom Press | Chapbook | |
| March 2025 |
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Spores of Doom: Dank Tales of the Fungal Weird | British Library Publishing | Anthology | 65 |
| September 2025 |
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The Yellow Wall-Paper | Vintage Digital | Collection | |1 |
| December 2025 | Mothers of Horror | Hemelein Publications | Anthology | |13 | |
| January 2026 |
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The Yellow Wall-Paper | Vintage Books | Collection | |1 |